Monthly Archives: December 2007

My week @ Javapolis

What a week! Javapolis was my first "real" conference and it was certainly an experience. Four days, 3300 attendees and 250 Atlassian t-shirts given away. The days were long and usually started with us setting up around 8 in the morning and on a few nights, we were still giving demos at 8 at night! We were armed with two gorgeous 30 inch Apple Cinema Displays which was coveted by all and sundry. The week started ominously with Matt sending his bag (and laptop and presentation) for a relaxing trip

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The first thing you do when you get a new Mac is…

...to install Ubuntu on it! Well, not true actually, but I thought it would still make a good title for a blog ;). The standard machine upgrade at Atlassian these days seems to be a shiny new MacPro. They're some of the sexiest machines I've had the pleasure to develop on. 4 cores and 4GB of memory really don't bog down all that often. There was one problem however: OS X. Now don't get me wrong. I think OS X is a beautiful operating system, and in my opinion it is probably the best operating

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Developing JIRA Studio Part 1

For the last few months, we've been hard at work creating the newest member of the Atlassian family, JIRA Studio. Since this product is targeted squarely at developers, we decided it would be useful to engage the developer community to talk about what we are working on, both the good and the bad. Our team uses a modified XP process that splits work into one or two week iterations, recording tasks using both JIRA and the more traditional note cards. In this last iteration, numbered 114, our

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GreenHopper 1.6 and 1.7

Since I last blogged about it GreenHopper, the agile planning tool for JIRA, has seen two big news releases. GreenHopper helps integrate more tightly integrate with the various Agile methodologies out there, by giving you a card-like view of issues and allowing your to re-order and reschedule them easily. It also has a set of charts and statistics that are specifically tailored to agile teams, like burndown charts and velocity metrics. Here are some highlights from the new releases: GreenHopper

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Video: Using Mylyn with JIRA

I blogged recently about the JIRA+Mylyn integration with Eclipse, and now we've got a video demo to show you the JIRA hotness in action. As I said last time: Mylyn brings JIRA right inside your IDE. You can view your whole list of assigned issues in JIRA. If you tell Mylyn which issue your working on, it will remember everything you do in conjunction with that issue. It begins to hide away all the extraneous stuff that does matter right now, allowing you to focus on what does. What's more, Mylyn

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